Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 28

Error parsing data returned by server: Cannot find element
Page: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1%BA%ADn_Th%C3%A0nh_vi%C3%AAn:KLBot2

Alphama (talk) 19:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I put in a change to handle this under, you and Reedy later removed the change. Maybe we do need the change in? Rjwilmsi  10:39, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Bug confirmed. Interwiki inside redirect. We should explicitly skip this problem. Very rare though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:09, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Everytime I run AWB for welcoming new members, I see this error. I can not skip or do anything to skip it. The only way is to skip manually. Do you mean I shoud give up using AWB because this error is rare? Alphama (talk) 13:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * we are going to fix it. But still you should use soft redirect to do this and not out interlanguage links inside redirects. I fixed this one for you. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * If you want to edit these pages you should unselect "Follow redirects" from the Options menu. Then the error won't appear but still not a good idea to add content on a redirect page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:06, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you. I DO NOT want to add content, I want to pass it. Alphama (talk) 20:46, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

until we fix the bug please bypass redirects as I did here and turn off "Follow redirects" from the AWB's Options menu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:27, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * OK I did it, thank you very much. Take your time. Alphama (talk) 00:57, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

added an exception when "Redirect target containts interwiki". -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:09, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException in ApiEdit.Open
The Polish can you please tell me that you ve been doing when you caught this bug? Which page did you try to edit? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:44, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * In this case I don't remember what page I was changing. Now AWB show me the same error while I was trying to edit pl:Wikipedysta:Albysprx. Are there any news about the bug that I had reported you few days ago? --The Polish (talk) 11:35, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

The Polish this one is a known problem. The page you try to edit is a redirect to an interwiki link. You 'll have to disactivate "Follow redirects" to resolve the problem.

I need more info of how to duplicate the other bug report. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:02, 28 December 2014 (UTC)


 * OK, thank you. --The Polish (talk) 15:24, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

is still not attached. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:18, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

The Polish on this one: Now if the redirect contains an interwiki link AWB will automatially skip the page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:16, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately detecting whether it is an interwiki is a dark art, and should be done by the API, not by AWB. Reedy filed a request upstream to notify if a redirect is to an interwiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:36, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Article.Categorisation
Walter Grassroot which of the three things you tried: To add, remove or replace a category? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Walter Grassroot and if it possible to provide us the settings file you used when you caught the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, sir. I was about to create the articles by my bot using AWB in Zh-wikipedia. The problem is unresolved when I used my laptop (WIN 8), but it works on my office computer (WIN 7). I wanna whether it matters with the computer system. -- Walter Grassroot  | talk  12:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Walter Grassroot can you post or send me by email the AWB settings file you use in your laptop? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:15, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Walter Grassroot please rereport if the bug re-occurs. Please post the settings file you use. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:21, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Erroneously depiping links starting with accented or unaccented I
It's the crazy situation where two capital letters map to the same non-capital letter. I hope it's extremely rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:34, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Important: We did not actually break anything since in the first case we had a red-link and in the second the redirect was already created. We should run a bot to create redirects in fact. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * It probably is extremely rare, though the bot did break the second link (the redirect from the title with accent didn't exist yet when it made the edit). SiBr4 (talk) 22:58, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * SiBr4 yes, you are right. I was wrong. When I realised I created the redirect by myself after my comment above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:03, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

No actual problem was caused but we still have to be careful. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:03, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi I wonder if you could run your bot to create redirects for all pages containing capital "İ". -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:30, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in DabControl.DabControl_Load
Most probably some temporary loss of connection. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:22, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Previous reports: 5.0.0.0, revision 5996 (2010-01-11 20:59:49) and 4.4.2.0, revision 3552 (2008-12-13 22:16:46). -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:26, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

[encountered while processing page ] @ ru.fallout.wikia.com with AWB 5.0.0.0, revision 5996 (2010-01-11 20:59:49), .NET 2.0.50727.42 and OS Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 SP 2. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:28, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

It's been a year we found nothing. Please rereport if this occurs again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:24, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Quotation mark replacement in citation templates
GoingBatty any chance that this character may also be used as something else and not only as a quotation mark? If not, I can fix this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any other use for this character other than as a quotation mark. Thanks for asking!  GoingBatty (talk) 13:49, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 09:22, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

ExternalException
Prabodh what did you do to catch this bug? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:26, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I got a message that this is a known bug, but still providing additional information. I tried replacing text. I also received similar error when I tried simply searching a keyword.Prabodh 02:15, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Nothing we can fix. Possibly broken windows install/graphics driver. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:49, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs
AWB doesn't open settings.--CennoBot (talk) 15:53, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Left question at de:Benutzer_Diskussion:CennoxX. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:08, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Resolved since it now works for Cennox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:07, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

AWB takes multiple edits to remove multiple empty gallery tags

 * Another example: check the history of وداد الاورفلي. --Meno25 (talk) 16:14, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:27, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

SocketException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
Connection problem. Very few we could do here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:13, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Fortdj33 please rereport if this occurs to version 5.5.6.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:14, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Adding incorrect date to Persondata
Periglio I noticed that you resolved the problem by replacing the misplaced templates. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I fixed the specific article. However, I am reporting it as a bug because there are possibly other articles where the same situation can occur. The result is potentially libelous and the solution can be clearly defined so I feel it is worthwhile pursuing some form of fix. Periglio (talk) 23:43, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Periglio experience says that there are very few cases of misuse of the given templates. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:42, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Ctrl functions don't work in List comparer Results lists

 * ,, . Add keyboard shortcuts for delete, copy. Add select all option, with keyboard shortcut. Rjwilmsi  10:37, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Making list from Special:ListUsers not in User: space

 * This is because the API call does not include the user namespace prefix in the results. Rjwilmsi  14:38, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The User: prefix doesn't appear on Special:ListUsers itself either, although the links themselves take you to the user pages (that exist). Anyone that wants to make a list of users, obviously would want user pages (or more likely talk pages) and AWB should prepend the prefix to the API result to achieve that. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 15:27, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 08:27, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Date of death of living person added to Persondata

 * Rjwilmsi 09:18, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Reflist on svwp

 * Use 19:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem. Let's mark this as won't fix then. --Meno25 (talk) 09:39, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in UserPrefs.SavePluginSettings
I was unable to reproduce this bug. Llywelyn2000 please rereport if this happens in version 5.5.6.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:24, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

ArgumentException in FindandReplace.InitializeComponent
what id you try to do? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Open the program, just get the above in a window. --  axg //  ✉  ]] ''' 21:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

did you try to open the "Find and Replace" window or this happened just after you started the main program? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:18, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * starting the main program. --  axg //  ✉  ]] ''' 16:10, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

did this happen just once or it happens everytime you start the program? Do you recall clicking with your mouse somewhere before the program starts? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:14, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I seem to have fixed it, and I think this was my doing. The error does say 'font' (a lot), and I was also getting errors with Paint.net also about the font, and yes I have been playing around with Segoe UI, in fact I did download the Windows 8+ version of Segoe UI and install it. It was only until a program update forced me to restart the computer (I usually put the computer into Sleep mode), upon the restart I first noticed that the screen with the loading circle and 'Welcome' was in italics. My desktop icons and text were also in italics, but then changed back to normal. I then knew that Segoe UI (W8) had replaced my version of Segoe UI, I could tell since the clock and the '1' had lost its bottom. I then resorted to a System Restore, which has but everything back to normal. --  axg //  ✉  ]] ''' 13:55, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

thanks. This confirms my theory that the bug is not a fault by our side. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:21, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

AWB changes the order of alphabetically ordered references
It has been possible for quite some time to put references in their own section rather than in the body of the article (this improves the legibility of the wiki code):

Legibility is further improved if the refs are ordered alphabetically:

AWB changes the order of the references. That is what I conclude from the two following diffs:
 * 1) diffs, article fr:Antonio Musa Brasavola;
 * 2) diffs, article fr:Jeanne du Laurens.

Thank you. JmCor (talk) 01:37, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, I see the problem, AWB does not have knowledge that fr-wiki is equivalent to References. This will be easy enough to change.  Rjwilmsi  07:05, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * and Fixed.  Rjwilmsi  07:31, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * By saying that "fr-wiki is equivalent to References" I think you mean "fr-wiki  is equivalent to Reflist". If that is the case, the issue is indeed fixed. Thank you. JmCor (talk) 03:58, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Ctrl-a does not function to select all text in multiple entry fields
I was going to report that Ctrl-A fails to select all the items in List comparer Results lists, but this report seems to cover that. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 10:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * ,, enables Ctrl+A for Find, Skip Contains, Skip Not Contains, list maker Add text boxes.  Rjwilmsi  10:40, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

grouping is not working; not getting pushed up
I did some testing of this issue. Talk:Muriel Hazel Wright contains the following code

If I wanted to use the "More..." tab to prepend another WikiProject template, AWB's order of procedures would do the following:
 * 1) The custom module would change to
 * 2) The talk page general fixes would run (which would do nothing in this case)
 * 3) The new WikiProject would be added to the top of the page

To get the proper layout, you would either need to: In either case, the general fixes would move the new WikiProject template after the and add the. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 02:50, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * update the custom module to add the new template before general fixes run, or
 * rerun the general fixes afterwards

I think the easiest way is to prepend the text using the custom module i.e. add in the custom module after the various replacements and before the final output. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, so I'll need to load two modules now, using the hack. Thanks for solving it! -- QEDK ♠  T  ♥  C  11:51, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

In fact you use only my module. Just add one extra line. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making me feel like an idiot. Haha. :) -- QEDK ♠  T  ♥  C  12:04, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

ObjectDisposedException in ApiEdit.MD5
Hello, AWB developers. I'm using AWB but not on Wikipedia. I've got this note that might interest you.

138.80.0.10 (talk) 02:02, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Error 'Could not load file or assembly...'

 * Are you sure you have .NET version 4.0 installed? Rjwilmsi  09:16, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Marked as "invalid". -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

ArgumentException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
TehAnonymous Please report if this happens to version 5.5.6.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

ArgumentException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs

 * What directory/path were you trying to load/save settings to/from? Thanks Rjwilmsi  17:45, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

if you could help us here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:06, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in CategoryProviderBase.get_UserInputTextBoxText
C933103 do you remember what did you do to catch this bug or was it just random? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:46, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis when i want to make list for articles within categories like for example Category:比赛情况 or Category:待完善的页面, but when I do the same operation to those categories like Category:MAD, it have no problem C933103 (talk) 07:57, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

C933103 can you please upgrade to version 5.5.3.0 and tell me if the bug occurs there too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:04, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

C933103 I can't login to your wiki. Try adding http://115.29.109.201:24000/SakiWiki instead of http://wiki.saki.cc and check whether the bug still occurs. I think it has to do with connection problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:06, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Can not filter out Book talk pages

 * For some reason the API is reporting pages as being in two namespaces, I have posted on the VPT at Village_pump_(technical) to see if anybody can say why. Rjwilmsi  09:57, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

ConfigurationErrorsException - Can not open AWB
Tito did you delete any file by accident? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I have not deleted any file. I last ran AWB yesterday. I have not made any change in computer either. -- Tito ☸ Dutta 19:17, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Have you tried backing up your default settings and then reinstalling AWB? GoingBatty (talk) 21:09, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Tito can you post me the setting file you used when you caught this one? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:04, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't have it. --Tito Dutta (talk) 07:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Tito Marked as rare. Please rereport if this occurs again. We ll need the settings file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:49, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Ref section in wrong place

 * Rjwilmsi 11:44, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Restriction by title does not increase database scanner speed

 * The bulk of the time will (should) be spent fetching the XML from the disc.  You might consider a two pass solution, a short script will extract just the pages with titles you are interested in, to a temporary XML file, and you can then refine the other requirements without having to wait for a long scan every time.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:48, 17 February 2015 (UTC).


 * Some data points: a simple search takes about 10-15 minutes on my hardware, and the task manager shows 100% disk usage as you'd expect. But when the "text must contain" regular expression is especially complicated, the process is CPU-bound not disk-bound; my most recent complex search took four hours. I had tested the regular expression on the first 1% of the scan, and wanted to test it again on a different subset. I put a simple regular expression in the "title must contain" field and found that this search was also going to take four hours. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:58, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Put title contains/not contains checks before article contains/not contains checks. Rjwilmsi  10:58, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

OverflowException in Parsers.FixPageRangesValue
FYI, the page was corrected from  to. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 16:11, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

ISBN in pages parameter, somebody's fixed it already. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:19, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

File names updated within a gallery (reopened)

 * Correct gallery tag hiding for Hide as well as HideMore modes. Rjwilmsi  17:55, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

NotImplementedException
Hi, I followed this guide but I have an exception that seems to be cause by a lack of .NET Framework 4. What can I do? PS: My plugin is disabled. I use wine 1.1.42.--B3t (talk) 10:15, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

This report is old. Please re-report if this occurs to version 5.5.6.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:26, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

TypeInitializationException in unknown function
Do you use Mono? -- Magioladitis (talk)

The bug occurred on Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.2 with Mono 2.6. -- Frap (talk) 14:44, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

You obviously miss some library (dll file). -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:05, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

This report is old. Please re-report if this occurs to version 5.5.6.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Not fixing DISPLAYTITLE on redirect pages

 * Rjwilmsi 10:24, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

scowiki
AWB is adding to a bunch of bio articles at scowiki when I use it there, can anyone fix it so it'll understand that articles with a category "XXXX daiths" shouldn't have the category "Living people" added to it? And the correct translation for "Living people" is "Livin fowk" for Scots anyway. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 22:35, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * this is a bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:06, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

do you have an example that AWB added this category? According to our code this should not be happening. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:24, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Working fine now, I don't know what happened. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 23:56, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Update: actually, it only adds "Category:Living people" when an error is corrected. For example, . -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 00:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

It did not happen to me. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:52, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Please update to version 5.5.6.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:54, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I tried the "Check for updates" and it said no update was available. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 00:57, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

fixes it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:01, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Still doing it, and AWB says no updates are available, am I supposed to do something else? -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 14:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

the fix will be available with the next official release. If you can't wait, you'll have to compile your own AWB version using our source code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, ok, I can wait, there's plenty of work to do at scowiki on non-bio articles. Thank you. :) -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 14:16, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Anytime. We are discussing the possibility of releasing next week (or the week after that). -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

MissingMethodException in CSharpCustomModule..ctor

 * Ah. Seems that constructor is only available in .NET 3.5 and above . Parameterless is available in all versions Reedy (talk) 19:47, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Don't alter valid HTML line-break tags
This is likely a find-and-replace added by that AWB user. I definitely agree that the changes in total were not necessary. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

this is not in AWB's general fixes. Please contact the editor directly. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 18:32, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

In case you may, we also do not do [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outback_Highway&diff=prev&oldid=648795218 this]. This is also custom settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:33, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

was the preferred version, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Line-break_handling&oldid=530237074 e.g. see here]. A plain was flagged as an error by WPCHECK. Not any more though. Mr Stephen (talk) 00:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Some time ago,
 * For several years, MediaWiki served XHTML 1.0, where (lowercase, optional space) was the only valid form. On 17 September 2012, we switched to HTML5, where both  and  (upper or lowercase, again with optional space) are both valid. Since these two basic forms are treated exactly the same by a HTML5-compliant browser, neither one should be "preferred" over the other, and so no exchange should be made. However, it is a good and sensible edit to alter invalid forms like    etc. to either of the two valid forms. -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:34, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Tagger incorrectly adds orphan/dead end/stub templates to redirect pages
GoingBatty I can't confirm the bug (rev 10850). -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry - this is my fault. I'm trying to remove overlinking of years by by changing 2011 to 2011.  If you do that on a redirect page before general fixes, tagger then adds the templates.  However, the link on redirect pages shouldn't be changed, so this is simply user error.  GoingBatty (talk) 20:51, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

"Skip Text if Contains .{936,}" doesn't work beyond 935 bytes

 * Does the article have a paragraph (block of text without newline or carriage return) longer than 935 characters? Rjwilmsi  08:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * No, it has two paragraphs both 935 characters. There's a parallel discussion at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You need to make the regex singleline if you want it to count bytes across paragraphs using . character, this is how C# regex works. Add  to the start of the regex.  Rjwilmsi  10:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've already added  to make , effectively forcing singleline, which doesn't skip either :(   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  12:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * works for me, skipping articles less than 1000 characters long. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that works for me too. Shouldn't  work, though? I still feel there's a bug that can be uncovered here. WP:AWB states  Either the documentation or the Contains functionality needs to be changed. I'd prefer the latter.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:17, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've updated the user manual. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:23, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * From what I understand of regex,  should work. Why doesn't it? Is this what has been referred? Thanks.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:17, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think you're reaching for  as   represents a space which is a component character of the period (any character except newlines), making it redundant. Using   should include newlines.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 15:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Per WP:AWB/Regular_expression  is shorthand for all whitespace characters ((space) (tab) (literal new line) (return)). And, just to be sure,   doesn't skip the page either.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:39, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * , all right, but note that in your expression (immediately above),  applies to the second period, not.
 * Wikitypo (not a typo in my AWB regex); problem still exists.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  15:54, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The full stop character is not a wildcard within a character group, so  will only match full stops or whitespace.  Rjwilmsi  15:58, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * is the full stop character, which is contained in . No one has used   in this discussion.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  16:09, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I know, nor have I used that construct. I've explained why the original regex doesn't work, provided you with an alternative that does work. You've come back with a second regex that doesn't work, I've just explained why that doesn't work either. I'm not sure what more I can do here. Rjwilmsi  17:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't see how you've explained why  doesn't work. If [.\s]{936,} will only match full stops or whitespace, then  would not skip the page, which isn't true; that is, what you said is incorrect. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 18:32, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Apparently, a wildcard (.) inside a character group (inside square brackets) becomes a hard period (\.) even without the backslash. I hadn't heard of this before, but then, I don't think I've ever used a wildcard inside a character group in regular expressions I've created before. Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 19:43, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * If what you say is true, the only way the page would be skipped using  would be if the first 900 characters are periods and spaces. Please, someone else answer.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  19:56, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no cause to be uncivil. I was merely re-explaining what Rjwilmsi already explained.  I wasn't saying it was what I understood to be the case.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 20:20, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * By the way, I"m confused as to why you just don't go with the alternative solution given to you above. Is a solution that works not good enough? :)  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 20:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I appologize if the terse expression of my desire to have someone with more experience respond offended you. No hard feelings.
 * I'm currently using the work-around. This being a bug report page, however, I reiterate: I still feel there's a bug that can be uncovered here.. Something isn't working as it should. I want to know what it is.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  21:04, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * After some discussion on my talk page, the problem [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:John_of_Reading&diff=652840171&oldid=652742125 disappeared after a re-boot]. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

General fixes changes redirects so they're no longer redirects
GoingBatty Marked as resolved. I removed the text. Text is most probably not expected in redirects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:01, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Can't compile the no plugins version

 * Edit "AutoWikiBrowser no plugins.sln" in notepad, change 13 to 12 at the top of the file. Rjwilmsi  07:42, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Working properly. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 15:38, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Removing duplicate arguments not appropriate for numbered parameters

 * Rjwilmsi 06:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

bug fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Link simplification confused by following apostrophes
There appears to be a spurious quote marks just after the wikilink... Elite: Dangerous . Nothing showed up in italics in the article as it was just italicizing a blank space. Bgwhite (talk) 20:33, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Bgwhite Can you please perform a quick database scan to see whether are more like this? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:38, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * If searching for  there are going to be alot, an example is ABBA.  If searching for , there are 75 and a listing is in User:Bgwhite/Sandbox1.  An example is in Esther.  Bgwhite (talk) 21:09, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I have 170 matches for  ie two apostrophes, an unpiped wikilink, then four apostrophes, which could be a sign that this bug has damaged the article. I've only checked the history of a few of these to see whether AWB was responsible. Here are three where AWB accidentally messed up the quotes and turned text bold: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Continental_Congress&diff=prev&oldid=592235869 1], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act&diff=594939381&oldid=593283167 2], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatreworks_USA&diff=prev&oldid=565619348 3]. My list is at User:John of Reading/Sandbox - I'll work through those to clean them up. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:47, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * John of Reading thanks fot the investigation. The last diff is not from AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I've posted at User talk:Basilicofresco about the FrescoBot edits. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:39, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

In 99% of the cases Bgwhite reported, AWB did not break anything. There were empty bold-like and italic-like tags and I removed most of them. I can check the John of Reading cases too. I suggest that we clean the bad syntax. I guess we can find a workaround but I would say it's garbage in, garbage out case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:52, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I've been through my sandbox. I would prefer to see this fixed in the code; it's not "garbage in, garbage out" but "unusual syntax in, garbage out", and it will keep happening. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:02, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 06:18, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

bug fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:14, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Transclusions ignored when determining if Dead end should be added
Something is clearly wrong with AWB's determination of if a page is a dead end or not.

I would guess it's not paying attention to transcluded templates (they might have standard wikilinks for a series of articles, as in this example which was made by an AWB bot.).

--ProtectorServant (talk) 12:28, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, we'll add an exception for pages using List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, Description. Rjwilmsi  06:21, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

That exception is too narrow. There may be plenty of other similarly situated pages. Might AWB be able to look at the transcluded templates and make its decision about what wikilinks (or other aspects of an article it considers!) are or aren't in an article including transclusions? --ProtectorServant (talk) 13:28, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

As another example, adding one of the Uncategorised tags would be inappropriate if a transcluded template applies a category. --ProtectorServant (talk) 13:31, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, so we'll use an API call to count the links on the page, this will include links from transcluded templates. This is the approach we use to get an accurate category count. Rjwilmsi  11:41, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

That seems like a better solution. Thanks! --ProtectorServant (talk) 11:46, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Tagger: if no wikilinks on page, use API call to get link count so we count any links transcluded from templates, so dead end tagging is accurate. Rjwilmsi  12:39, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

LDR woes when renaming references

 * OK, problem is that the ref that gets renamed is used in a group ref, which AWB won't be looking for. So we'll need to check for use within group refs before renaming, and in this case skip the renaming. Rjwilmsi  06:26, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 10:50, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Alakzi bug fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:59, 15 May 2015 (UTC)